Dear Congressional Leaders:The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of the District of Columbia urge you to reject calls to install permanent fencing around the U.S. Capitol complex.1 Permanent fencing around the most hallowed grounds in our country would only compound the damage to democracy inflicted by the agitators who stormed the Capitol, attempted …
“Time for Answers About Those Intelligence Reports DHS Filed About Me” Benjamin Wittes. Benjamin Wittes is editor in chief of Lawfare and a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of several books.Does the legitimate need to prevent violence in connection with protests justify large-scale collection of material utterly …
Statement for the RecordSenate Select Committee on IntelligenceDirector of CIA Nominee William J. BurnsFebruary 24, 2021My whole life has been shaped by public service. My father, a career Army officer, fought in Vietnam in the 1960s and eventually became the director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. As my three brothers and I …
We received an email from a Vietnam Vet contributor : Folks: attached is a missive from my buddy Len B that was printed today in The Gazette, our local paper. He always writes better than I can. Thanks They answered the nation’s call By Len Bentley for Colorado Springs local journal the Gazette Many decades ago, some 2,700,000 …